In an op-ed in the New York Times, Professor of Public Policy David Kirp provides a strong example that demonstrates that public schools aren’t failing students, as groups like ALEC claim. Kirp demonstrates how Union City, N.J. — bringing poor, mostly immigrant kids into the educational mainstream — argues for reinventing the public schools we have. […]
From The Atlantic: A eye-opening new paper comparing U.S. students to their international peers by social class finds that the richest Americans are world-class readers, and in math, our disadvantaged kids have improved more than almost any other country. Here’s what everybody knows about education in the United States. It’s broken. It’s failing our poorest […]
Many of Forsyth County’s public schools have resegregated over the last 40 years as national court decisions, and local political ones, favored neighborhood schools over racially and economically balanced ones. Although schools with many poor students clearly score lower on tests, education experts and community leaders disagree on whether putting students of different demographics together […]
